Rasa Labs: a 7-week embodied creative intensive

Across seven Sundays, investigate Rasa—the felt essence of experience—using the Moving Rasa framework to ask life questions, try practices, and integrate what we notice. Each session builds on the last so that when you explore your relationship to anything—food, movement, lineage, place—your lived experience stays centered and you leave with tools you can reuse.

What you’ll take away:

• Your Rasa toolkit: simple, repeatable micro-rituals to sense, name, and follow what’s alive.
• An inquiry method: the Moving Rasa framework for asking better life questions and moving through them—on your own or with others.
• Embodied cultural literacy: a felt encounter with Austronesian wisdom (silat, foodways, bamboo, poetry, oracles) that refreshes how you perceive and relate.
• Transferable practices: cross-disciplinary methods you can bring to teams, classrooms, and community spaces.
• Real community & continuity: a small cohort you actually get to know, shared food, and an easy way to keep connecting after the series.
• Gentle integration: guided time to notice what resonates and weave it into daily life—no presentations required.
• Access note: Consent-centered and opt-in. Come as you are; participation looks different for everyone.

Faculty highlights

• Andrew Suseno (he/they) — Creator and Founder of Moving Rasa; PT/Feldenkrais/Laban somatic clinician; creator of Movement Tarot & Once Upon a Rasa.
• Regie Cabico (he/they) — First Asian American to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam; top honors in three National Poetry Slams; appearances on HBO, TEDx, NPR; lead teaching artist at The Kennedy Center.
• Kimberly Tate (she/they) — Architectural designer & mover; founder of Bambulawan (bamboo design-build, Leyte); creator of DANCITECTURE; Parsons faculty; AIANY Center for Architecture educator.
• Jacob Walse-Dominguez (he/they) — Queer traditional artist of Maritime Southeast Asian lineages; rooted in Philippine Kuntau–Silat (Sama–Tausug, Melayu-Sabah) and West Javanese Pencak Silat (Mande Muda, Cimande; Gerakan Suci).
• Miranti — Indonesian founder of The Joy of Feasting; art/design/performance background; lauded by chef Graham Elliott as a “Culinary Poet,” known for sensitive palate and daring Indonesian-rooted fusions.

Sliding scale • Materials + food included • 16 seats

Pricing

• Fully-Immersive (series + integration/study): $800
• Sliding Scale Core (series): $400
• Scholarships & payment plans available.

Dates & place

• Sundays, 2–5pm • Jan 25 – Mar 8
• Prime Produce, 424 W 54th St (btw 9th & 10th Ave), NYC